Lenovo buying IBM’s x86 server business last year had a significant impact on both vendors, with IBM being the only major server OEM to lose revenue (a 42.8 to 44.6 percent drop), while Lenovo ...

China has spawned a supercomputing contender. This story starts in 2016 when AMD licensed its first-generation Zen CPU design ...

Alternatives to the x86, such as the EPIC (explicitly parallel instruction computing) architecture in Itanium ... is technology that allows a server to run multiple operating systems and software ...

IBM has been a leader in high performance computing (HPC) architecture for decades. IBM’s x86 server team had access to that experience and knowledge base; they are a first rate server design ...

The EX5 servers take a step away from traditional x86 server architecture in which processors and memory are locked together. The new server architecture decouples memory from the processors into ...

IBM engineers expanded the capabilities of the x86 platform by decoupling memory from its traditional place next to the server’s processor ... the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture chip, now in its fifth ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite ... it is growing in the server market, and it has even become the primary CPU architecture in Apple’s devices since ...

That accolade belongs to AMD’s announcement from 1999, which retrofitted Intel’s existing x86 architecture ... which includes the server market. At the time of writing, the world’s most ...

The first substantiation of this architecture is the NeXtScale System that allows ... But what is clear is that IBM intends to compete aggressively for a portion of the x86 server market that ...

AMD has downgraded ARM in its server strategy. Instead of ARM-based servers, AMD is relying again on x86 chips, this time based on the promising Zen architecture, to take market share from Intel.

This was a pivotal moment in the history of modern desktop and server computing ... and they are the ones that defined the x86-64-bit architecture. The next evolution of this baseline instruction ...